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WILCOX, Ella Wheeler. Poems of passion and pleasure. London. Gay & Hancock, [1912]. Quarto. xiii, [3], 267pp, [1]. With a tipped-in colour frontispiece and a further 19 tipped-in colour plates by Dudley Tennant. Original publisher's pictorial cream cloth, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, marked. Decorated endpapers, hinges exposed, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 33064
LAWSON, John. The maniac, with other poems. London. Printed for Samuel Lawson, 1821. 12mo. [4], ii, 95pp, [1]. With a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards, later naively rebacked in cloth. Extremities worn and marked. Hinges exposed, later book-label of Robert Barr and partially erased ownership inscription to FEP, foxed, a trifle dusty. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 21862
[MILBOURNE, Luke]. The Two Wolves in lambs skins: or, old ely's Sorrowful Lamentation over his Two Sons. Being found in an old manuscript in the Bedlamite Library, which was Bequeath’d by Oliver Cromwel's Porter, from whence those Two Reverend Brethren have been, from time to time, supply’d with New Principles. London. Printed, and Sold by J. Sackfield, 1716. First edition. 8vo. 55pp, [1]. With a half-title. Recent tan paper boards, earlier red morocco lettering- piece. Numerous bookseller's description housed in pocket pasted to FEP, lightly toned. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 19758
PALIN, Ralph. Iphotelle; or the longing-fit. A Poem. London. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810. First edition. 8vo. [4], 71pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's drab paper boards. Without backstrip, naively rebacked with clear tape. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Charles Westrop to head of title page. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19761
BILLINGE, Charles. Poems on christian charity, contentment, and melancholy. Wolverhampton. Printed for the Author, by J. Smart, 1784. First edition. vi, [5], 12-88pp. ESTC T9681. ESTC records copies at three locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, and Oxford), and a further four in North America (Columbia, Harvard, Huntington, and Yale).

[Bound with:] POPE, Alexander. Messias. Idyllium sacrum. Per alexandrum pope, anglice conscriptum. Latine redditum. Wolverhampton. Typis, J. Smart, 1784. [4], 4-8, 4-8pp, [1]. Parallel English and Latin texts with duplicate pagination. ESTC T5691. ESTC ... More >
£ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 19757
[IRELAND, William Henry]. Stultifera navis; Qua omnium mortalium narratur Stultitia. The modern ship of fools. Aere perennius. London. Printed for William Miller, 1807. First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 295, 9pp. With a half-title, a hand-coloured engraved folding frontispiece, and four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Hinges exposed, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 19710
SIDNEY, Sir Philip. The works of The Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, Kt. In Prose and Verse. London. Printed for E. Taylor et al., 1725. Fourteenth edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [12], 32, 419, [1]; [3], 402-881, [1]; [4], 64, 184, [6]. With six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red ad green morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Armorial bookplate of John Searle to sprung front pastedown of Vol. I, early inked ownership inscriptions to endpapers, all three volumes dampstained. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 33041
ST. PIERRE, Bernardin de. Paul et virginie. Paris. Chez Deterville, 1816. 8vo. [2], viii, 242pp. With a half-title and an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, recent bookplate of Liam Sims to FEP, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 33111
HOWARD, Alfred. The beauties of byron, consisting of selections from his works. London. Printed by T. Davison, for Thomas Tegg, [s.d., c. 1835] 12mo. [4], 212pp. With a half-title and an engraved portrait frontispiece. Modern tan cloth-backed brown paper boards, original publisher's printed covers pasted over, lettered in gilt to spine. Original publisher's covers marked, chipped, and discoloured. Manuscript dates to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32994
READE, A. Arthur. The Literary Ladder. London. S. W. Partridge and Co., 1880. First edition. 8vo. [8], 88pp. Original publisher's brown cloth, stamped in gilt, black, and blind. A trifle rubbed and marked. Scattered spotting. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 32992
BYRON, Lord. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the third. London. Printed for John Murray, 1816. First edition, second issue. 8vo. [4], 79pp, [5]. With a half-title and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in modern brown cloth-backed brown paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board, lettered in gilt to spine. Original publisher's drab wrappers bound in. A trifle rubbed. Wrappers heavily marked/chipped, later typed bookseller's description tipped-in to half-title, ink-stamps of Nottingham Free Public Libraries to title page, and pages 25, 55, and ... More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32971
KIPLING, Rudyard. Songs from books. London. Macmillan and Co., 1913. First edition, third impression. 8vo. xix, [1], 302pp, [2]. Bound by Truslove & Hanson in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-calf, red cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed and sunned, lower joint slightly scuffed/cracked but holding firmly. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden to FEP. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 29828
[LE SAGE, Alain Rene]. The adventure of gil blas, of santillane. Translated from the french of le sage, by t. smollett. London. Printed for J. Mawman, 1819. 8vo. In three volumes. xi, [1], 388; vii, [1], 375, [1]; viii, 398pp. With an engraved frontispiece to Vol. I and a further 28 engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, ticket of London-based booksellers Bowdery & Kerby to FEP of Vol. I, scattered spotting, offsetting. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33042
BYRON, Lord. Ode to napoleon buonaparte. London. Printed for John Murray...by W. Bulmer and Co., 1814. Sixth edition. 8vo. [7], 10-17pp, [3]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Recent green cloth, blind-stamp of Nottingham Public Libraries to upper board. A trifle rubbed and marked. Typed bookseller's pasted to FEP, blind-stamp and manuscript shelf-mark of Nottingham Public Libraries to title page, scattered spotting. More > £ 75.00 Antiquates Ref. 32972